FUN: Poking fun at the President

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Here’s some spam from Evy’s High School chum that imho is worth forwarding with suitable editorial comment.

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———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Karen
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Subject: Where to Put # 44

Where to put  president  #44

Where, oh where —  to put Obama’s picture.

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George Washington, our nation’s first president  and leader of the American  Revolution!

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Abe Lincoln,  honorable leader who pulled our nation through its darkest  time!

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Alexander Hamilton,  founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury and  leader of the constitutional  convention! >>>>>>>>

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Andrew Jack  son, “Old Hickory ” fought the British in New Orleans!

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Ulysses  Grant, Union army general, led the North through the Civil  War!

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Ben  Franklin, genius inventor, political theorist and leading  author of the Constitution.

Finally, we have  someone to put on the food  stamp!!!

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Obama’s policies  have put more people on welfare than any president before him, so this placement is most  appropriate.

Unlike the Nobel  Peace Prize, for which he did nothing, this is an “honor”  he richly  deserves.

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I agree with Washington, by far, with some pimples, imhothe BEST president. At least in his first term; later on, not so much.

I’m OK with Grant; a good ordinary joe.

Ditto Jackson; anybody who shoots the guy who insults his wife is OK in my book.

Franklin should have been a prez since anyone who likes turkeys is OK with me.

Lincoln is my worst!

Hamilton, if he had been Prez, would be in my third tier(i.e., worse-est, worse-er, and just plain worse). No doubt the folks at the FED like this since AH wanted a Federal Reserve cabal back in his time. It took Wilson to sell us out to the Big Banks. And sneakily put us in WW1 and on the road to empire.

It’s funny to put BHO44 on the food stamp, but that honor should belong to FDR. He put the nation on the dole, perminently put us on the road to Socialism and hell, all while corruptly sneakaly and with malice aforethought putting us in WW2.

imho

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FUN: Went “shopping” today and my expertise was essential

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Mario Junior, my FACETIME buddy, — he FACETIMEs me after work and chats about his day while his parent are shocked to find us chatting — went shopping for his Communion suit. Thrilling.

But!

Mom was planning a blue suit, white shirt, and BROWN shoes.

Both the male salesman and I convinced Mom that black shoes with laces was required.

She conceded.

Amazing!

A fat old white guy injineer giving fashion advice!

The world is going to end!

The Mayans were wrong; the world will end tomorrow. The Universe’s problem has been solved. The Karmic wheel has been stopped. Occam’s razor went dull.

Injineers have finally evolved to the final stage of Nirvanah.

Dispensing fashion advice!

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RANT: Energy Policy MIA

Friday, April 13, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/t-boone-pickens-were-the-only-country-in-the-world-without-an-energy-policy/

Business T. Boone Pickens: ‘We’re The Only Country in The World Without an Energy Policy’
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:40pm by Becket Adams

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While appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens dished on everything from energy policy, to natural gas, to “green” jobs. But it was when “Morning Joe” guest Mike Barnicle asked Pickens what he would do differently to boost the economy via the energy industry, the oilman had some depressing news.

“If I was president, I’d get an energy policy for America. We’re the only country in the world without an energy policy and you use 25 percent of the oil. We’re insane,” Pickens said. “And we have resources in America that we could have an energy policy.”

But what about energy independence?

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Every President campaigns on it! It gives them somethign to talk about. They don’t have ANY plan to od anything. But it’s great to talk about it!

Argh!

So why bother.

It’s a strategic area. If we drilled in ANWAR, a bunch of Arabs who have a lot less wealth to make trouble for us.

Argh!

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SERVICE: File under “dumb useless error messages”

Friday, April 13, 2012

File under “dumb useless error messages”

2012-04-08 Dumb

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RANT: PAYTRUST has a cumbersome new account authorization process

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wanted to add a new checking account to PAYTRUST.

(PAYTRUST is a “recommended” pay-for service. Not cheap and very “risky”, but very valuable. But not without its warts, odors, and frustrations. Not the least of which is “support” tends to be “pig headed”. But if you’re persistent, you can break thru.)

So first you have to enter all the data. THEN, they tell you that you have to send a copy of your DL and a void check.

(1) WART: NJ’s DL is tough to copy. It’s pink lettering on a rose color background. I can barely read it. Had to play with the Office Jet’s settings to get something. I think it’s readable, wi’ll see what PAYTRUST thinks.

(2) ODOR: PAYTRUST should describe ALL the steps in getting a new account working.

(3) FRUSTRATING: Other than normal operations, “every thing else” seems like a pain in the <synonym for donkey>?

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INITIALISMS: AMTHOBAIYF

Thursday, April 12, 2012

“And may the odds be always in your favor”

… from the Hunger Games.

Hopefully that’s not a prophetic movie.

Any time I thought about, the odds were NEVER in MY favor. Always the house!

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SERVICE: LEGACY improves

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/dignitymemorial/guestbook.aspx?n=paul-wolkenberg&pid=150386134&eid=lc_dm_gbexpire

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This Guest Book has been kept open until 4/16/2012 by Memorial Oaks Funeral Home. After that date, it will remain available for viewing-only, unless sponsored.

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LEGACY, the obituary site, has new level of “service”.

Before, Guest books disappeared unless sponsored. Now there appears to be a third alternative — probably a deal struck with the funeral homes for free advertising — the guest book remains readable, but not updateable. Big win for LEGACY. Puts a LOT of pressure on folks to eternalize.

Hmmm?

All in all I think it is progress.

Which all “services” would improve their offerings! Are you listening PAYTRUST, YAHOO, MICROSOFT, 1AND1, Verizon, and AT&T? Just a quick top o’ the head list incomplete and in no particular order. Argh!

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INITIALISMS: MTFBWY

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

“May The Force Be With You”

Such an elementally simple concept. Hmm, isn’t the essence of humanity? All we have is OUR life force.

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POLITICAL: FACEBOOK picture makes me wonder.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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I r an fat old white guy injineer. Did anyone else find the equation “fascinating” and “written wrong”? Subliminal message? Or a statement about “teachers”? P.S. IMHO teachers ARE “underpaid” because they are “on the dole”, currently “wards” of the Gooferment, inextricably tied to it, and are also slaves to their “union” who’s “in bed” with the Democratic Party “machine”. Not that anyone asked.

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INTERESTING: “How to Change Your Life”; always a good topic!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/strategies/how-to-change-your-life-
1333405303250/?cid=djem_sm_dailyviews_t#article_tab_article

ROI    APRIL 4, 2012, 12:18 A.M. ET
How to Change Your Life
Arends: New research suggests the key to breaking a bad habit lies in identifying both its cue — and its reward.
By BRETT ARENDS

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The bottom line: We’re running on autopilot most of the time, and we don’t really know it. We are controlled to a remarkable degree by our habits, not just by our conscious choices.

“A habit is a choice that we deliberately make at some point, and then stop thinking about, but continue doing, often every day,” he writes.

Even people in crisis can use this knowledge to turn their lives around.

We can’t unlearn bad habits. The way to defeat them is to learn new, better ones.

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1. Find the bad habit.

2. Find the reward.

First, experiment: Try out different alternative habits to see if you feel the same reward.

Second, after each experiment, try isolating by writing down the first three things that come to mind “emotions, random thoughts, reflections on how you’re feeling, or just the first three words that pop into your head.”

Third, after doing that, he waited for fifteen minutes. He set an alarm. When it went off, he asked himself: Do you still feel the urge … ?

3. Find the cue.

Where am I? What time is it? What’s my emotional state? Who else is around? And what action immediately preceded the urge?

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I did some further poking.

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-Business-ebook/dp/B0055PGUYU/ref=reg_hu-rd_dp_img

PART ONE: THE HABITS OF INDIVIDUALS
1. The Habit Loop – How Habits Work
2. The Craving Brain – How to Create New Habits
3. The Golden Rule of Habit Change – Why Transformation Occurs
PART TWO – THE HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZATIONS
4. Keystone Habits, or The Ballad of Paul O’Neill – Which Habits Matter Most
5. Starbucks and the Habit of Success – When Willpower Becomes Automatic
6. The Power of a Crisis – How Leaders Create Habits Through Accident and Design
7. How Target Knows What You Want Before You Do – When Companies Predict (and manipulate) Habits
PART THREE – THE HABITS OF SOCIETIES
8. Saddleback Church and the Montgomery Bus Boycott – How Movements Happen
9. The Neurology of Free Will – Are We Responsible for Our Habits?

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I “amazon wish listed” it.

Noticed that the Kindle version is 12.89$. The exact same price as the hard cover. WTX?

I know from my lame self-publishing that 99% of the ebook price is profit. Why do I feel like I’m being gouged?

Strike One!

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The Pièce De Résistance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pièce_de_résistance) was the following comment fragment:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-Business-ebook/dp/B0055PGUYU/ref=reg_hu-rd_dp_img

5.0 out of 5 stars
Curing Your Habits, March 19, 2012
By Ethan Jones
This review is from: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)

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My chief complaint is he doesn’t really show you how to break bad habits. For this you should consider Emotional Intelligence 2.0. That book was great for my self-control.

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Strike Two!

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Jury’s still out.

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